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| Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
np: the fray - look after you
ok im back to normal now. its been a very stressful 4 days...but its all over.
tuesday, phys prac was long and boring, but my partner and i managed to get thru it with the help of a student who had used our workstation before us and happened to leave all his answers there...hurray..the guys behind us thought we were damn smart cos we had answers to all their questions.
wednesday, the day i was most afraid of. rat dissection day. managed to get thru the boring-ass physics lecture somehow(with the help of darling roberto's coffee of course) and made my way nervously upstairs. it was bloody cold and to make things worse, they opened the windows in the lab so that it wouldnt stink too much. chose a very nice, clean, white female rat. i suspect they were gassed that morning itself, as rigor mortis hadnt set in yet. the thing i was most nervous of before was not blood and guts and stuff, but whether i would actually be able to make the first incision into the animal. i mean, if i couldnt, that would be like, the end of my veterinary dream. but i think the trick is confidence...so i just grabbed my scissors, and cut. and thankfully, i did not feel sick, sad, weepy, wobbly, faint, or anything else. i just felt calm. out of respect to my rat, i will not say that i had fun. i did not have fun. but i must say i valued the experience. this whole slicing into an animal thing has been worrying me for a couple of years, and now i've proven to myself that i can do it. for me, its a big mental hurdle thats been overcome. so yay! the prac demonstrators were very nice about this prac as well, always helping, teaching and warning ppl that anyone found mutilating/disrespecting their rat would automatically fail the prac.it was a very informative session, things are different when you see them in the flesh and not the perfect textbook diagrams. i mistook my rat's uterus for its bladder(WHAT?? they're next to each other ANYWAY) and the scottish guy across the table(i finally learnt his name, its malcolm) was nice enough to point out my mistake and show me where the bladder really was. i dint think much of him digging thru his(AND MY) rat with his bare fingers, but whatever, he's smart. i'll need a friend like him in bio lab.to top it all off, i think i got full marks for this prac, so i'm really happy.thanks to my rat for sacrificing her life for the sake of my education.
today was the last of my worrisome days, physics mid semester test, which actually went pretty well. so its all over, got a relaxing week next week. no school on tues or wed...and only 3 hours on friday. and jema will be here on sunday, so we'll go out.
i got shut out of my internet banking account a couple of days ago so had to go to the bank today to sort it all out. turns out they tracked someone logging into my account from the US....which was of course my DAD, whom i gave the password to, but apparently its considered a security breach, so had to go there, talk to the customer service officer in another office...settle everything, then my banking account got unlocked. called my dad to tell him to keep his itchy,albeit well-meaning fingers away from my net bank account. and found out that my mother has been on a shopping spree in NYC and bought etienne aigner shoes...i believe my exact reaction to this news was to shout damn loudly in the middle of campus: WAH LIVING IT UP AH???? omg im so embarrassing..its like how during bio lecture on wednesday, when my lecturer flashed a pic of footballers i said really really really loudly YAY!!! i should just bury my head in sand.
today a funny thing happened to me. i got on the tram to go to melbourne central train station during my lunch hour and thought to myself as the tram left the stop outside school...i think i should validate my card today. validating a card is basically how we pay our transport fare. usually i just dont validate and grab a free ride since i only travel 3 or 4 stops...but today something compelled me to validate my ticket. if caught with an unvalidated ticket by a conductor, i face a fine and my visa can be revoked after multiple offences. so i validated. on my way BACK to school for earth science, when i got off at the school stop, who should be waiting on the pavement but a bunch of conductors...bloody hell what a close call..so many students got caught for their tickets...lucky i decided to follow my gut. :)
spent half an hour chatting with roberto(the coffee guy to whom all my money goes) on wednesday. he was telling me how he's going on a holiday with a bunch of his friends to a PRIVATE ISLAND, which his gazillionaire friend is renting. the friend is bringing a 5-star chef along. and a YACHT..... yeah...a yacht. i was speechless for a full 10 seconds i swear. bloody hell how cool does that sound la??? i oso want a life like this...3 months holiday every year, go to private island, stand around and chat with students everyday. good stuff man. that's the way to live.
but unfortunately its not my life. now i have to go re-copy my bio notes...which i stupidly wrote on the wrong page of my lecture summary set. the bodoh lecturer skipped a lecture and dint tell us, and i without reading the heading on the page, blindly went to take notes on the wrong page. !#(@*%&^ i hate when nonsense like this happens.
np: hanson - go |
posted by kiki @ 1:48 AM  |
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gasp kiki! you know my friend told me that in her brother's primary (or is it secondary) school class, the teacher was doing a demonstration on a live rat that had anaesthesia applied and then had it's skin cut so that they could see it's heart beating. and then this brother's stupid friend when to flick the heart and it just died like that. it's so mean la i felt kinda grossed out.
okie don't be too stressed!! i hope it's not worse than a levels cos i always had the impression that jc is the most stressful yet sometimes pointless 2 years of a singaporean student.. take care :)
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Hahaha i always laugh when i read ur blog its so interesting!!! :) We also did a similar bio prac on a frog (still alive...but kinda fainted after we put chloroform into the bag n shook it wif the frog) in sec sch n we could see the heart pumping! My mum always say dat uni life is less stressful than JC but it doesnt seem dat way according to u haha! Just keep it up n lets hope to meet up sumday eventually when u come bck to spore! :)
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Hi Kikz,
Did you eventually meet up with Jema? I hope the both of you aredoing okay (even though Jema's there for barely 3 days!). The rat thing was seriously gross that I couldn't take it off my mind! I read the entry last night and it appeared in my dream! I swear I saw it in my breakfast this morning too!!!!
And your mum is really living it up la... like me...AHAHAHAHA.I bought new pants ysterday for fun! Something is damn wrong with me!!!
Okay you faster come back!! :)
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hullos my dear ! hey, it's great knowing that you had a good first dissection and you survived the harrowing days ((: take care of jema and enjoy every single day there ayes ! (: take care lots lots :D and don't drink TOO MUCH coffee ! heh (:
belle
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yes yes is jema there already?? i mean have you met her!
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since everyone commented, i shall comment too!
yay to your first dissection. first step to becoming a vet! are tiny bladders cute?
don't we all need smart ass lab partners?
let's rent a private island when we retire and live it up yo.
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kiki, I'm going to warn you first.. if we all live in that little island retirement community, mich is never going to let us get married ! (which actually currently, isn't that bad apart for xunny hahah)
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gasp kiki! you know my friend told me that in her brother's primary (or is it secondary) school class, the teacher was doing a demonstration on a live rat that had anaesthesia applied and then had it's skin cut so that they could see it's heart beating. and then this brother's stupid friend when to flick the heart and it just died like that. it's so mean la i felt kinda grossed out.
okie don't be too stressed!! i hope it's not worse than a levels cos i always had the impression that jc is the most stressful yet sometimes pointless 2 years of a singaporean student.. take care :)